That spur is certainly lightly used. Looks like it is almost ready for some trees to be sprouting up between those rails.
I will be adding some long grass, just need to find something flexible enough not to derail the train
Well I guess I sould post some update on the South Lewistown... The layout has been been completely changed (again) all track was removed, the upper and lower parts have been removed and a slice has been cut out of it to allow walking into the midle of the layout so it is no longer all round the walls. I will post some photos of this at a late date. The other thing I have been working on is an old Model Power RS-11, this was one of my first locos so I could never bring myself to throw it out. But being it was old Model Power it ran as smooth as a bag of gravel so it was never used. This is what it now looks like. It is now mounted on an Atlas Classic chassis that I picked up VERY cheap on eBAy, Smokey Valley handrails and a few other detail parts it now runs very smoothly indeed, this is now finished apart from needing grab irons but I need to order a new #80 drill. I have picked up a Proto 1000 RS-2 chassis as well that I will mount under another old Model Power RS-2 that I have also had for years but I will be doing this at a later date.
Great weathering on that Alco. Drilling for grab irons is high on my list of least favorite modeling chores.
I also need to bend all the grabs, the curved ones will be fun to make... Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk
That's gonna suck. Doesn't anyone offer pre bent grabs that would fit? Probably not the curved ones but maybe the others. Although you're probably better at bending them than I am. My attempts look like a 4 year old did them.
I thinks its a fine looking Alco, that's something I don't have much of, like the weathering too. I did have a package of pre-bent curved wires for an Alco at one time, for some reason I'm thinking "Custom Finishing " or Miniatures by Eric maybe?? I get CRS bad sometimes.
The handrails are Smokey Valley, as far as grabs getting any detail parts over this side of the pond is difficult. I had a look on the Walthers web site and that was no use, Atlas have none in stock on their spare parts page either... self bent it will be Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk
Smokey Valley makes good handrail sets- I have one for a GP15-1 (the locomotive I have in mind is a Walthers Trainline GP15-1 that I have stripped the paint & cast-on details off of)
I used to use them on my blue box Athearn loco, I think this set cost core than the loco did! I also have a set ready to fit on my Model Power RS-2 Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk
OK I am eyeing up the RS-2 Project and took a look at the chassis I got for it. I have never seen a curcuit board like it! awful lot of wires considering it is DC, how would I go about DCCing this????
I had a look at this chassis and have never seen anything like it before. As Matt says, an awful lot of wiring for DC! The white bit on the left is a multi-way socket, but what plugs into it I cannot guess.
Very odd. It has the colored wires of a standard DCC decoder and it even has "DCC" printed on it in two places towards the middle. Almost seems as if it could be a dual mode decoder.